Rape victim News

Kolkata -
A 16-year-old Indian girl was hospitalized following two separate gang rape attacks late last year, two days in a row. It's being reported police could have prevented the second attack had they been alert.

Dubai -
Updated: A Norwegian alleged rape victim is appealing her conviction and the sentence she received after – according to Sharia law – she “participated in extramarital sex,” with her rapist. The appeal trial is scheduled for September 2013.

The parents of the teenage Greek girl who was brutally raped and assaulted by a Pakistani illegal immigrant on the island of Paros last summer, have appealed for funds to help with specialised rehabilitation in the U.S.

Cologne -
Two Roman Catholic hospitals are under fire in Germany for reportedly refusing to exam a 25-year-old suspected rape victim because –– it would include giving advice on abortion and the "morning after" pill which runs contrary to the Catholic faith.

New Delhi -
After "Nirbhaya's" body was returned to India, she was given a funeral and cremation ceremony. The fight still continues as her brutal rape and death has ignited protests for women's rights and stricter rape laws.

In an effort to "shield the family from public scorn" a 20-year-old Afghan man took his 14-year-old sister out to a cowshed behind their home, cut her stomach open, removed her unborn five-month-old fetus, and then stitched her back up with some string.

Jamie Leigh Jones was the first to step forward and tell her horrific tale of rape while employed by KBR and stationed in Iraq. Now another KBR employee, the mother of 2, has come forward to state that she too was drugged and raped in a similar fashion.

Arab News reported a court in Saudi Arabia punished a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail. She was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of rape.